PUBG: 11-Year-Old Moves Bombay High Court Requesting Ban on Game
An eleven-year-old boy moved the Bombay High Court Thursday seeking a ban on the popular mobile game 'PUBG'. Ahad Nizam, who filed the public interest litigation through his mother, said the game promotes violence, aggression, and cyber-bullying. The court should direct the Maharashtra government to ban it, the PIL said. Earlier, a students union from Jammu and Kashmir, as well as National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, had also asked for a ban on the game. "The petition has also sought a direction to the central government to form an Online Ethics Review Committee for periodical checking of such violence-oriented online content," petitioner's lawyer Tanveer Nizam said. It is likely to come up for hearing before a division bench headed by Chief Justice N H Patil. PUBG or 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' is an online game where 100 players fight it out in free for all combat where the sole survivor wins. While the PIL mentions P...